Bangor University : Bangor professor influences UN Human Rights Council adoption of 'Right to privacy in the digital age':Emotion recognition technologies now an emergent priority.

ENPNewswire-November 2, 2021--Bangor University : Bangor professor influences UN Human Rights Council adoption of 'Right to privacy in the digital age':Emotion recognition technologies now an emergent priority

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Release date- 01112021 - The United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council has accepted the necessity of recognising emotion recognition technologies as an emergent priority in the global right to privacy in the digital age.

The importance of this was advanced by Professor Andrew McStay of Bangor University and the Emotional AI Lab.

Emotion Recognition Technologies

Biometric and emotion data refer to intimate dimensions of human life. They provide cues about users' mental states and about the body itself. Emotion recognition technologies have attracted many criticisms (for instance about unproven methodologies), but this is not preventing their deployment worldwide in everyday objects, services, and situations. Indeed, there is a rapidly emerging global market for data about emotions, with emotion recognition now of keen interest to the technology industry, and diverse sectors that perceive economic value in understanding our emotional and mental states.

You might encounter emotion recognition technologies in schools to monitor student's emotion and quality of engagement; in call centres to track the emotional tone of callers' and workers' voices; in shops to profile customers' emotions towards products; in cars to measure fatigue, stress and anger in drivers to generate voice alerts or mood appropriate music; and in security contexts for border control, policing and crowd control.

Influencing the UN Human Rights Council

The UN Human Rights Council has formally adopted the Resolution titled 'Right to privacy in the digital age.' In principle this an update of the UN's understanding of human rights to better...

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